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Casino City's Vin Narayanan knocked one of the casinos off his bucket list after he visited Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut. Here are the top-10 first impressions of his trip.

Owner of Hoosier Park, Centaur LLC, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Casino Aztar is casting off Starbucks, replacing it with its own coffee shop.

House speaker Robert DeLeo intends to sponsor bill that permits slot machines at four Massachusetts race tracks.

Annie Duke made history on Sunday night as she became the first woman to win the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship at Caesars Palace. Duke won $500,000 after defeating Erik Seidel in the finals.

A man won $100,000 after hitting a jackpot on the Triple Stars slot machine at the California casino.

Casino City's Gary Trask found out the hard way on Friday at the NBC Heads-UP Poker Championship that making side bets with poker pro Phil Gordon can be a losing, but rewarding, proposition.

Take a stroll down the red carpet with the Casino City cameras as we catch all of the big stars in attendance for the annual Draw Party for the NBC Heads-Up Championship at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

Casino City's Vin Narayanan, Gary Trask and Dan Igo discuss the NBC National Heads-Up Championship, Vin's recent trip to Foxwoods and make their weekly best bets.

Borgata Hotel Casino lost $5 million because of a December snowstorm.

The Pennsylvania casino, which is operated by Las Vegas Sands, had the state's third-highest take in slot machine revenue during February.

Pinnacle Entertainment held a sneak preview of its $380 million suburban St. Louis casino Monday and the reviews were overwhelmingly positive.

A TV producer from Los Angeles won a $877,061 Wheel of Fortune quarter MegaJackpot at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

The Meadows Track & Casino petitions Gambling Control Board for permission to install 68 table games.

Casino City breaks down the five-year history of the NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship and comes up with a list of intriguing numbers -- as well as a few predictions -- as a look-ahead to this weekend's 2010 edition of the event.

Las Vegas Sands refuted a report that said it would sell the Sands Bethlehem and announced it would restart construction of a stalled 300-room hotel tower.

Florida resident Ashton Griffin won consecutive shootout tables and eliminated six opponents, racking up a $560,000 payday in the NAPT Venetian High Roller Bounty Shootout.

Resorts Casino in Atlantic City is giving a chance at winning a vacation to “Excellence Punta Cana.”

Al "Sugar Bear" Barbieri won his third event at the LA Poker Classic by capturing Commerce Casino's famed Ironman event.

Six hotels plus a shuttered construction subsidiary will each pay a $3,000 fine because of illegal remodeling.